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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mouse and The Moonbeam, by Eugene Field
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+Title: The Mouse and The Moonbeam
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+Author: Eugene Field
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+  THE MOUSE
+  AND THE MOONBEAM
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+  THE MOUSE
+  AND THE MOONBEAM
+
+  By
+  Eugene Field
+
+  NEW YORK
+  1919
+
+
+
+
+Copyright, 1912
+
+by Charles Scribner's Sons
+
+Through the courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons,
+we were permitted to print this small private edition.
+
+--GIFT--
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+THE MOUSE AND THE MOONBEAM
+
+Whilst you were sleeping, little Dear-my-soul, strange things
+happened; but that I saw and heard them, I should never have
+believed them. The clock stood, of course, in the corner, a
+moonbeam floated idly on the floor, and a little mauve mouse
+came from the hole in the chimney corner and frisked and
+scampered in the light of the moonbeam upon the floor. The
+little mauve mouse was particularly merry; sometimes she danced
+upon two legs and sometimes upon four legs, but always very
+daintily and always very merrily.
+
+"Ah, me!" sighed the old clock, "how different mice are nowadays
+from the mice we used to have in the good old times! Now there
+was your grandma, Mistress Velvetpaw, and there was your
+grandpa, Master Sniffwhisker,--how grave and dignified they
+were! Many a night have I seen them dancing upon the carpet
+below me, but always the stately minuet and never that crazy
+frisking which you are executing now, to my surprise--yes, and
+to my horror, too."
+
+"But why shouldn't I be merry?" asked the little mauve mouse.
+"Tomorrow is Christmas, and this is Christmas eve."
+
+"So it is," said the old clock. "I had really forgotten all
+about it. But, tell me, what is Christmas to you, little Miss
+Mauve Mouse?"
+
+"A great deal to me!" cried the little mauve mouse. "I have been
+very good a very long time: I have not used any bad words, nor
+have I gnawed any holes, nor have I stolen any canary seed, nor
+have I worried my mother by running behind the flour-barrel
+where that horrid trap is set. In fact, I have been so good that
+I am very sure Santa Claus will bring me something very pretty."
+
+This seemed to amuse the old clock mightily; in fact the old
+clock fell to laughing so heartily that in an unguarded moment
+she struck twelve instead of ten, which was exceedingly careless
+and therefore to be reprehended.
+
+"Why, you silly little mauve mouse," said the old clock, "you
+don't believe in Santa Claus, do you?"
+
+"Of course I do," answered the little mauve mouse. "Believe in
+Santa Claus? Why shouldn't I? Didn't Santa Claus bring me a
+beautiful butter-cracker last Christmas, and a lovely
+gingersnap, and a delicious rind of cheese, and--and--lots of
+things? I should be very ungrateful if I did _not_ believe in
+Santa Claus, and I certainly shall not disbelieve in him at the
+very moment when I am expecting him to arrive with a bundle of
+goodies for me.
+
+"I once had a little sister," continued the little mauve mouse,
+"who did not believe in Santa Claus, and the very thought of the
+fate that befell her makes my blood run cold and my whiskers
+stand on end. She died before I was born, but my mother has told
+me all about her. Perhaps you never saw her: her name was
+Squeaknibble, and she was in stature one of those long, low,
+rangy mice that are seldom found in well-stocked pantries.
+Mother says that Squeaknibble took after our ancestors who came
+from New England, where the malignant ingenuity of the people
+and the ferocity of the cats rendered life precarious indeed.
+Squeaknibble seemed to inherit many ancestral traits, the most
+conspicuous of which was a disposition to sneer at some of the
+most respected dogmas in mousedom. From her very infancy she
+doubted, for example, the widely accepted theory that the moon
+was composed of green cheese; and this heresy was the first
+intimation her parents had of the sceptical turn of her mind.
+Of course her parents were vastly annoyed, for their maturer
+natures saw that this youthful scepticism portended serious,
+if not fatal, consequences. Yet all in vain did the sagacious
+couple reason and plead with their headstrong and heretical
+child.
+
+"For a long time Squeaknibble would not believe that there was
+any such archfiend as a cat; but she came to be convinced to the
+contrary one memorable night, on which occasion she lost two
+inches of her beautiful tail, and received so terrible a fright
+that for fully an hour afterward her little heart beat so
+violently as to lift her off her feet and bump her head against
+the top of our domestic hole. The cat that deprived my sister of
+so large a percentage of her vertebral colophon was the same
+brindled ogress that nowadays steals ever and anon into this
+room, crouches treacherously behind the sofa, and feigns to be
+asleep, hoping, forsooth, that some of us, heedless of her hated
+presence, will venture within reach of her diabolical claws. So
+enraged was this ferocious monster at the escape of my sister
+that she ground her fangs viciously together, and vowed to take
+no pleasure in life until she held in her devouring jaws the
+innocent little mouse which belonged to the mangled bit of tail
+she even then clutched in her remorseless claws."
+
+"Yes," said the old clock, "now that you recall the incident,
+I recollect it well. I was here then, in this very corner, and
+I remember that I laughed at the cat and chided her for her
+awkwardness. My reproaches irritated her; she told me that a
+clock's duty was to run itself down, _not_ to be depreciating
+the merits of others! Yes, I recall the time; that cat's tongue
+is fully as sharp as her claws."
+
+"Be that as it may," said the little mauve mouse, "it is a
+matter of history, and therefore beyond dispute, that from that
+very moment the cat pined for Squeaknibble's life; it seemed as
+if that one little two-inch taste of Squeaknibble's tail had
+filled the cat with a consuming passion, or appetite, for the
+rest of Squeaknibble. So the cat waited and watched and hunted
+and schemed and devised and did everything possible for a cat--a
+cruel cat--to do in order to gain her murderous ends. One
+night--one fatal Christmas eve--our mother had undressed the
+children for bed, and was urging upon them to go to sleep
+earlier than usual, since she fully expected that Santa Claus
+would bring each of them something very palatable and nice
+before morning. Thereupon the little dears whisked their cunning
+tails, pricked up their beautiful ears, and began telling one
+another what they hoped Santa Claus would bring. One asked for a
+slice of Roquefort, another for Neufchatel, another for Sap
+Sago, and a fourth for Edam; one expressed a preference for de
+Brie, while another hoped to get Parmesan; one clamored for
+imperial blue Stilton, and another craved the fragrant boon of
+Caprera. There were fourteen little ones then, and consequently
+there were diverse opinions as to the kind of gift which Santa
+Claus should best bring; still, there was, as you can readily
+understand, an enthusiastic unanimity upon this point, namely,
+that the gift should be cheese of some brand or other.
+
+"'My dears,' said our mother, 'what matters it whether the boon
+which Santa Claus brings be royal English cheddar or fromage de
+Bricquebec, Vermont sage, or Herkimer County skim-milk? We
+should be content with whatsoever Santa Claus bestows, so long
+as it be cheese, disjoined from all traps whatsoever, unmixed
+with Paris green, and free from glass, strychnine, and other
+harmful ingredients. As for myself, I shall be satisfied with a
+cut of nice, fresh, Western reserve; for truly I recognise in no
+other viand or edible half the fragrance or half the gustfulness
+to be met with in one of these pale but aromatic domestic
+products. So run away to your dreams now, that Santa Claus may
+find you sleeping.'
+
+"The children obeyed,--all but Squeaknibble. 'Let the others
+think what they please,' said she, 'but I don't believe in Santa
+Claus. I'm not going to bed either. I'm going to creep out of
+this dark hole and have a quiet romp, all by myself, in the
+moonlight.' Oh, what a vain, foolish, wicked little mouse was
+Squeaknibble! But I will not reproach the dead; her punishment
+came all too swiftly. Now listen: who do you suppose overheard
+her talking so disrespectfully of Santa Claus?"
+
+"Why, Santa Claus himself," said the old clock.
+
+"Oh, no," answered the little mauve mouse. "It was that wicked,
+murderous cat! Just as Satan lurks and lies in wait for bad
+children, so does the cruel cat lie in wait for naughty little
+mice. And you can depend upon it that, when that awful cat heard
+Squeaknibble speak so disrespectfully of Santa Claus, her wicked
+eyes glowed with joy, her sharp teeth watered, and her bristling
+fur emitted electric sparks as big as marrowfat peas. Then what
+did that blood-thirsty monster do but scuttle as fast as she
+could into Dear-my-Soul's room, leap up into Dear-my-Soul's
+crib, and walk off with the pretty little white muff which
+Dear-my-Soul used to wear when she went for a visit to the
+little girl in the next block! What upon earth did the horrid
+old cat want with Dear-my-Soul's pretty little white muff? Ah,
+the duplicity, the diabolical ingenuity of that cat! Listen.
+
+"In the first place," resumed the little mauve mouse, after
+a pause that testified eloquently to the depth of her
+emotion,--"in the first place, that wretched cat dressed herself
+up in that pretty little white muff, by which you are to
+understand that she crawled through the muff just so far as to
+leave her four cruel legs at liberty."
+
+"Yes, I understand," said the old clock.
+
+"Then she put on the boy doll's fur cap," said the little mauve
+mouse, "and when she was arrayed in the boy doll's fur cap and
+Dear-my-Soul's pretty little white muff, of course she didn't
+look like a cruel cat at all. But whom did she look like?"
+
+"Like the boy doll," suggested the old clock.
+
+"No, no!" cried the little mauve mouse.
+
+"Like Dear-my-Soul?" asked the old clock.
+
+"How stupid you are!" exclaimed the little mauve mouse. "Why,
+she looked like Santa Claus, of course!"
+
+"Oh, yes; I see," said the old clock. "Now I begin to be
+interested; go on."
+
+"Alas!" sighed the little mauve mouse, "not much remains to be
+told; but there is more of my story left than there was of
+Squeaknibble when that horrid cat crawled out of that miserable
+disguise. You are to understand that, contrary to her sagacious
+mother's injunction, and in notorious derision of the mooted
+coming of Santa Claus, Squeaknibble issued from the friendly
+hole in the chimney corner, and gambolled about over this very
+carpet, and, I dare say, in this very moonlight."
+
+"I do not know," said the moonbeam faintly. "I am so very old,
+and I have seen so many things--I do not know."
+
+"Right merrily was Squeaknibble gambolling," continued the
+little mauve mouse, "and she had just turned a double back
+somersault without the use of what remained of her tail when,
+all of a sudden, she beheld, looming up like a monster ghost, a
+figure all in white fur! Oh, how frightened she was, and how her
+little heart did beat! 'Purr, purr-r-r,' said the ghost in white
+fur. 'Oh, please don't hurt me!' pleaded Squeaknibble. 'No; I'll
+not hurt you,' said the ghost in white fur; 'I'm Santa Claus,
+and I've brought you a beautiful piece of savory old cheese,
+you dear little mousie, you.' Poor Squeaknibble was deceived;
+a sceptic all her life, she was at last befooled by the most
+palpable and most fatal of frauds. 'How good of you!' said
+Squeaknibble. 'I didn't believe there was a Santa Claus, and--'
+but before she could say more she was seized by two sharp, cruel
+claws that conveyed her crushed body to the murderous mouth of
+mousedom's most malignant foe. I can dwell no longer upon this
+harrowing scene. Suffice it to say that ere the morrow's sun
+rose like a big yellow Herkimer County cheese upon the spot
+where that tragedy had been enacted, poor Squeaknibble passed to
+that bourn whence two inches of her beautiful tail had preceded
+her by the space of three weeks to a day. As for Santa Claus,
+when he came that Christmas eve, bringing morceaux de Brie and
+of Stilton for the other little mice, he heard with sorrow of
+Squeaknibble's fate; and ere he departed he said that in all his
+experience he had never known of a mouse or of a child that had
+prospered after once saying that he didn't believe in Santa
+Claus."
+
+"Well, that is a remarkable story," said the old clock. "But if
+you believe in Santa Claus, why aren't you in bed?"
+
+"That's where I shall be presently," answered the little mauve
+mouse, "but I must have my scamper you know. It is very
+pleasant, I assure you, to frolic in the light of the moon; only
+I cannot understand why you are always so cold and so solemn and
+so still, you pale, pretty little moonbeam."
+
+"Indeed, I do not know that I am so," said the moonbeam. "But I
+am very old, and I have travelled many, many, leagues, and I
+have seen wondrous things. Sometimes I toss upon the ocean,
+sometimes I fall upon a slumbering flower, sometimes I rest upon
+a dead child's face. I see the fairies at their play, and I hear
+mothers singing lullabies. Last night I swept across the frozen
+bosom of a river. A woman's face looked up at me; it was the
+picture of eternal rest. 'She is sleeping,' said the frozen
+river. 'I'll rock her to and fro, and sing to her. Pass gently
+by, O moonbeam; pass gently by, lest you awaken her.'"
+
+"How strangely you talk," said the old clock. "Now, I'll warrant
+me that, if you wanted to, you could tell many a pretty and
+wonderful story. You must know many a Christmas tale; pray, tell
+us one to wear away this night of Christmas watching."
+
+"I know but one," said the moonbeam. "I have told it over and
+over again, in every land and in every home; yet I do not weary
+of it. It is very simple. Should you like to hear it?"
+
+"Indeed we should," said the old clock; "but before you begin,
+let me strike twelve; for I shouldn't want to interrupt you."
+
+When the old clock had performed this duty with somewhat more
+than usual alacrity, the moonbeam began its story:
+
+"Upon a time--so long ago that I can't tell how long ago it
+was--I fell upon a hill-side. It was in a far distant country;
+this I know, because, although it was the Christmas time, it was
+not in that country as it is wont to be in countries to the
+north. Hither the snow-king never came; flowers bloomed all the
+year, and at all times the lambs found pleasant pasturage on the
+hill-sides. The night wind was balmy, and there was a fragrance
+of cedar in its breath. There were violets on the hill-side,
+and I fell amongst them and lay there. I kissed them, and they
+awakened. 'Ah, is it you, little moonbeam?' they said, and they
+nestled in the grass which the lambs had left uncropped.
+
+"A shepherd lay upon a broad stone on the hill-side; above him
+spread an olive-tree, old, ragged, and gloomy; but now it swayed
+its rusty branches majestically in the shifting air of night.
+The shepherd's name was Benoni. Wearied with long watching, he
+had fallen asleep; his crook had slipped from his hand. Upon the
+hill-side, too, slept the shepherd's flock. I had counted them
+again and again; I had stolen across their gentle faces and
+brought them pleasant dreams of green pastures and of cool
+water-brooks. I had kissed old Benoni, too, as he lay slumbering
+there; and in his dreams he seemed to see Israel's King come
+upon earth, and in his dreams he murmured the promised Messiah's
+name.
+
+"'Ah, is it you, little moonbeam?' quoth the violets. 'You have
+come in good time. Nestle here with us, and see wonderful things
+come to pass.'
+
+"'What are these wonderful things of which you speak?' I asked.
+
+"'We heard the old olive-tree telling of them to-night,' said
+the violets. 'Do not go to sleep, little violets,' said the old
+olive-tree, 'for this is Christmas night, and the Master shall
+walk upon the hill-side in the glory of the midnight hour.' So
+we waited and watched; one by one the lambs fell asleep; one by
+one the stars peeped out; the shepherd nodded and crooned, and
+crooned and nodded, and at last he, too, went fast asleep, and
+his crook slipped from his keeping. Then we called to the old
+olive-tree yonder, asking how soon the midnight hour would come;
+but all the old olive-tree answered was 'Presently, presently,'
+and finally we, too, fell asleep, wearied by our long watching,
+and lulled by the rocking and swaying of the old olive-tree in
+the breezes of the night.
+
+"'But who is this Master?' I asked.
+
+"'A child, a little child,' they answered. 'He is called the
+little Master by the others. He comes here often, and plays
+among the flowers of the hill-side. Sometimes the lambs,
+gambolling too carelessly, have crushed and bruised us so that
+we lie bleeding and are like to die; but the little Master heals
+our wounds and refreshes us once again.'
+
+"I marvelled much to hear these things. 'The midnight hour is at
+hand,' said I, 'and I will abide with you to see this little
+Master of whom you speak.' So we nestled among the verdure of
+the hill-side, and sang songs one to another.
+
+"'Come away!' called the night wind; 'I know a beauteous sea not
+far hence, upon whose bosom you shall float, float, float, away
+out into the mists and clouds, if you will come with me.'
+
+"But I hid under the violets and amid the tall grass, that the
+night wind might not woo me with its pleading. 'Ho, there, old
+olive-tree!' cried the violets; 'do you see the little Master
+coming? Is not the midnight hour at hand?'
+
+"'I can see the town yonder,' said the old olive-tree. 'A star
+beams bright over Bethlehem, the iron gates swing open, and the
+little Master comes.'
+
+"Two children came to the hill-side. The one, older than his
+comrade, was Dimas, the son of Benoni. He was rugged and sinewy,
+and over his brown shoulders was flung a goat-skin; a leathern
+cap did not confine his long, dark curly hair. The other child
+was he whom they called the little Master; about his slender
+form clung raiment white as snow, and around his face of
+heavenly innocence fell curls of golden yellow. So beautiful a
+child I had not seen before, nor have I ever since seen such as
+he. And as they came together to the hill-side, there seemed to
+glow about the little Master's head a soft white light, as if
+the moon had sent its tenderest, fairest beams to kiss those
+golden curls.
+
+"'What sound was that?' cried Dimas, for he was exceeding
+fearful.
+
+"'Have no fear, Dimas,' said the little Master. 'Give me thy
+hand and I will lead thee.'
+
+"Presently they came to the rock whereon Benoni, the shepherd,
+lay; and they stood under the old olive-tree, and the old
+olive-tree swayed no longer in the night wind, but bent its
+branches reverently in the presence of the little Master. It
+seemed as if the wind, too, stayed in its shifting course just
+then; for suddenly there was a solemn hush, and you could hear
+no noise, except that in his dreams Benoni spoke the Messiah's
+name.
+
+"'Thy father sleeps,' said the little Master, 'and it is well
+that it is so; for that I love thee Dimas, and that thou shalt
+walk with me in my Father's Kingdom, I would show thee the
+glories of my birthright.'
+
+"Then all at once sweet music filled the air, and light, greater
+than the light of day, illumined the sky and fell upon all that
+hill-side. The heavens opened, and angels, singing joyous songs,
+walked to the earth. More wondrous still, the stars, falling
+from their places in the sky, clustered upon the old olive-tree,
+and swung hither and thither like colored lanterns. The flowers
+of the hill-side all awakened, and they, too, danced and sang.
+The angels, coming hither, hung gold and silver and jewels and
+precious stones upon the old olive, where swung the stars; so
+that the glory of that sight, though I might live forever, I
+shall never see again. When Dimas heard and saw these things he
+fell upon his knees, and catching the hem of the little Master's
+garment, he kissed it.
+
+"'Greater joy than this shall be thine, Dimas,' said the little
+Master; 'but first must all things be fulfilled.'
+
+"All through that Christmas night did the angels come and go
+with their sweet anthems; all through that Christmas night did
+the stars dance and sing; and when it came my time to steal
+away, the hill-side was still beautiful with the glory and the
+music of heaven."
+
+"Well, is that all?" asked the old clock.
+
+"No," said the moonbeam; "but I am nearly done. The years went
+on. Sometimes I tossed upon the ocean's bosom, sometimes I
+scampered o'er a battle-field, sometimes I lay upon a dead
+child's face. I heard the voices of Darkness and mothers'
+lullabies and sick men's prayers--and so the years went on.
+
+"I fell one night upon a hard and furrowed face. It was of
+ghostly pallor. A thief was dying on the cross, and this was his
+wretched face. About the cross stood men with staves and swords
+and spears, but none paid heed unto the thief. Somewhat beyond
+this cross another was lifted up, and upon it was stretched a
+human body my light fell not upon. But I heard a voice that
+somewhere I had heard before,--though where I did not know,--and
+this voice blessed those that railed and jeered and shamefully
+entreated. And suddenly the voice called 'Dimas, Dimas!' and the
+thief upon whose hardened face I rested made answer.
+
+"Then I saw that it was Dimas; yet to this wicked criminal there
+remained but little of the shepherd child whom I had seen in all
+his innocence upon the hill-side. Long years of sinful life had
+seared their marks into his face; yet now, at the sound of that
+familiar voice, somewhat of the old-time boyish look came back,
+and in the yearning of the anguished eyes I seemed to see the
+shepherd's son again.
+
+"'The Master!' cried Dimas, and he stretched forth his neck that
+he might see him that spake.
+
+"'O Dimas, how art thou changed!' cried the Master, yet there
+was in his voice no tone of rebuke save that which cometh of
+love.
+
+"Then Dimas wept, and in that hour he forgot his pain. And the
+Master's consoling voice and the Master's presence there wrought
+in the dying criminal such a new spirit, that when at last his
+head fell upon his bosom, and the men about the cross said that
+he was dead, it seemed as if I shined not upon a felon's face,
+but upon the face of the gentle shepherd lad, the son of Benoni.
+
+"And shining on that dead and peaceful face, I bethought me of
+the little Master's words that he had spoken under the old
+olive-tree upon the hill-side: 'Your eyes behold the promised
+glory now, O Dimas,' I whispered, 'for with the Master you walk
+in Paradise.'"
+
+
+Ah, little Dear-my-Soul, you know--you know whereof the moonbeam
+spake. The shepherd's bones are dust, the flocks are scattered,
+the old olive-tree is gone, the flowers of the hill-side are
+withered, and none knoweth where the grave of Dimas is made. But
+last night, again, there shined a star over Bethlehem, and the
+angels descended from the sky to earth, and the stars sang
+together in glory. And the bells,--hear them, little
+Dear-my-Soul, how sweetly they are ringing,--the bells bear us
+the good tidings of great joy this Christmas morning, that our
+Christ is born, and that with him he bringeth peace on earth and
+good-will toward men.
+
+
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